Medical Phrase Index: A Comprehensive Reference to the Terminology of Medicine
Medical Phrase Index: A Comprehensive Reference to the Language of Medicine Books
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Absolutely revised 4th edition includes over 50,000 new entries, making it the most comprehensive medical phrase book in print. All entries are thwart-indexed below each word in the phrase, and include “sound alike” words and common abbreviations. Used by thousands of court reporters, medical transcriptionists and health in rank management personnel nationwide.
Over 240,000 medical phrases
All entries thwart-indexed
Thumb indexed to help you find words quicker.
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I work with four other transcriptionists for a group of neurologists, and this book has been used quite a bit (there is tape holding the binding together). The Stedman Word books are also brilliant, but if you are looking for a phrase, more times than not, you will find it in this book. For instance, the doctor dictated “wall motion abnormality”. None of us ever heard of this before, but I was able to find it in this book. I highly urge it, and I hope to soon be able to get the new 2004 edition.
Rating: 5 / 5
This latest revision – 4th edition (10/15/01) is even simpler to use and more comprehensive (250,000+ entries) than previously. This is truly THE medical phrase resource. Nothing else comes close! We use it dozens of times a day.
Rating: 5 / 5
When one hears one word in a phrase but is not sure of others, this resource is invaluable. Of all my resources for medical transcription, this is one of the few I use every day. Can’t live without it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Being in the medical transcription field having to look up new words and decipher dialects, this is one book every transcriptionist should have. To look up a word by disease and/or symptom is a lot quicker than a flashlight without batteries in the dark! I highly urge this book to medical transcriptionists whether a beginner, intermediate or experienced one.
Rating: 5 / 5
There is much help here for the medical transcriptionist, but based on my experience I’d guess this is of more help to those only needing general help and not specific, detailed, intense help in deciphering the ever-changing world of medical language. The volume is the size of a excellent, stout English dictionary, and contains well over 1000 pages of words and phrases that the MT must know, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been frustrated by searching for a term in this book only to find that I need to instead turn to a Stedman’s specialty book (GI/GU, Orthopedics, Oncology, etc.) and find it there after a fruitless search of the MPI. There are a handful of instances it’s worked the other way nearly, but in my three-plus years as an MT I’ve learned that I’ll seldom find help here and that I should everlastingly go to Stedman’s first.
HOWEVER, having said that, not everyone is able to invest a few hundred dollars in a set of Stedman’s medical word books. Even as “you get what you pay for” is certainly right in this case, if you’re in a situation where you have experienced co-workers who can help with the more specialized phrases you won’t find here, this may be enough. It’s not terrible by any stretch, but if you need to work independently, this is insufficient.
Rating: 3 / 5